Allow muting a person only for me

This missing feature impacts hybrid teams every single day. When I’m in the office and sitting right next to a colleague who is also in the same online meeting, I hear their voice twice — once in person and again through Teams with a delay. It makes it extremely distracting to follow the discussion.

We still need a way to mute only the output of specific participants locally, without muting them for everyone else. Other collaboration platforms already offer this, and with hybrid work becoming the norm, this is no longer a “nice to have” — it’s essential for productivity. Please prioritize adding this capability.

My understanding is that the audio stream is generated server-side, so here is a suggestion of what could be done: Have some sort of MuttingSettings read from each participant in a meeting, and generate the correspondant stream, according to how many different settings there are. So for instance, if there are basically two teams, one at BuildingA and another one at BuildingB, the team at BuildingA would mute each other, generating a stream with the audio from participants from BuildingB, and vice-verse. This would increase the demand server-side, but possibly not that much, as similar settings could be collapsed together.

Please, please add this, especially in group education sessions

Amazed and slightly bewildered this feature doesn't already exist. It's nearly 2026, even Discord has this feature. I grasp the technical argument for why it's difficult, but there's been requests for what seems like a fundamental behaviour since at least 2022 - surely even a small, low-budget startup like Microsoft could have developed a solution by now.

We need this urgently! We do meetings with mixed remote users and people from office and it is a pain to hear colleague sitting next to me twice with delay.

I'm surprised this feature isn't implemented also, at first I thought it was but it just muted the person for everyone

Microsoft, we really really need this feature.

I googled for a solution for this issue, and I was surprised that this is not implement yet.😂

Please do something about this, we want this feature to be implemented

Please!

I agree this would be more than useful. 
It could be future requiring confirmation of both sides to prevent any misunderstandings and misuse - if two participants in fact sit in the same room they would both acknowledge they prefer to mute each other and still hear eachother. 

That way no "abuse" of the function would be possible